Abstract: A hydromechanical model with explicit fracture flow is presented for the fully coupled analysis of flow and deformation in fractured porous media. Extended finite-element method (XFEM) was utilized to model the fracture ...

Abstract: Lunar base structures can be constructed in situ and/or shielded using unprocessed or minimally processed lunar resources with technologies utilized in harsh terrestrial regions for the past four millennia. Single‐ and ...

Abstract: In this paper, a systematic study was carried out to computationally explore the significance of different mechanisms involved in hydraulic fracturing treatments in practice, with special reference given to the hydrofracture ...

Abstract: In this paper, a computational algorithm based on the eXtended Finite Element Method (X-FEM) is developed to study the fluid-lag zone involved in hydraulic fracturing treatments. The fluid-lag zone, caused due to the high ...

Abstract: A hybrid element method is presented for the dynamic analysis of piles and pile groups embedded in exponentially graded transversely isotropic media. In this method, the piles are modeled using finite elements, while the ...

Abstract: In the Green-Ampt model, the infiltration rate is indirectly related to time via the intermediate term of cumulative infiltration depth. In the present study, the direct theoretical relationship between the infiltration ...

Abstract: In this manuscript, we have used the recently developed Fα-calculus to calculate the energy straggling function through the fractal distributed structures. We have shown that such a fractal structure of space causes the ...